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It is used as a test of cognitive skills because if you can rearrange the relationships to a logical order, it becomes father-son-(who is also a father therefore his son is) grandson (son of speaker).

Now for a true mystery, how is it that a random length of twine or rope can tie itself in knots, but if you held the same piece in your hands all day and flipped it around, you couldn't get it to tie itself up in knots at all?

That is called Speers Law: "Rope or wire left to it's own devices will tied itself in knots"

11-26-2012 08:13 PM

Capt Len

Re: Riddles with a Prize, by Mantus Anchors

That would never fly on the BC coast where the most confusing day is the 3rd Sunday of June

It is used as a test of cognitive skills because if you can rearrange the relationships to a logical order, it becomes father-son-(who is also a father therefore his son is) grandson (son of speaker).

Now for a true mystery, how is it that a random length of twine or rope can tie itself in knots, but if you held the same piece in your hands all day and flipped it around, you couldn't get it to tie itself up in knots at all?

Which radically assumes the spring can in fact absorb and return that force. In practice, the spring may be too weak to store that much energy, resulting in a total failure to launch the box.

Rather than assuming the physical properties of a spring, I maintain the box is located at a LaGrange point and it will plummet to a death in a gravity well before the box ever leaps up after Jack. A much simpler assumption.

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